Hábitos de Vida Saludables por Medio de la Actividad Física en Adultos Mayores en el Barrio Alfonso Lopez (Usme)

Abstract

In Colombia, according to a study carried out by the University of Tolima in 2005, people who enter the third age will experience considerable changes at the respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, and motor levels and in their musculoskeletal system, they will also have a decrease in the capacity of resistance and effort to physical stress, as well as a change in the quality of life, habits and customs that people used to have in their best times. This project seeks to promote healthy lifestyle habits through dance in older adults who for one reason or another have not returned to perform or have little approach to activities that help physical maintenance, vitality and autonomy in people, also that, through the activities and habits learned during the interventions, they get out of the comfort zone a little and can access or experience things that they may never have had the opportunity to do during their lives.

It also seeks to publicize all the benefits of promoting healthy lifestyle habits through physical activity, seeking that the elderly have a greater affinity with activities and can continue with autonomous work for as long as possible, so that Likewise, there is greater physical and mental vitality on the part of this population in their daily lives.